Elvedin Okerić, chairman of the Canton Sarajevo Assembly, was a guest of TVSA Interview.
Asked about the resignation of Prime Minister Nihad Uk, which caused numerous reactions, and that it was done without prior consultation with the coalition partners, he points out that he believes in a cooperative relationship with the coalition partners and the majority within the CS.
Unfortunately, the Prime Minister did not consult when he made the decision to resign, however we will support it as a partner of our party, as someone who elected the Prime Minister and the Government respecting the new situation and the grave tragedy that befell us after the tram accident. Therefore, we support this procedure, it would be better if he consulted with his partners, his assessment was to do as he did, however we will support him, emphasized Okerić.
Speaking about the laws that regulate the current situation in which the current government found itself, Okerić states that the CS Government Law – Article 10 states that the government resigns, that is, when the prime minister resigns, the entire government resigns, with the obligation to perform their functions until the election of a new government. There are no deadlines and they have full responsibility for everything they do.
“The opposition respects what we do in accordance with the law and why the current majority did not give in to the elements and stop working. The opposition in the CS wants to use this tragedy as an opportunity not to slow down the CS Government, but to stop the work of the CS Government by insisting on the quick appointment of a new CS Government, Okerić explains. Adding that this is a short period of a few months, where any expert or any representative candidate for the position of prime minister would dare to assume that position, we have full capacity of work until the seventh month, the eighth is a collective vacation, in the ninth month we enter the pre-election campaign. The situation is such that we now do not have the possibility to replace the Prime Minister, we have to change the entire Government, both the Prime Minister and 12 ministers, the Law on the Government says that the Government in resignation has the obligation to perform its function and its obligations until the appointment of a new Government, there is no deadline, there is no deadline. The “Troika” took power in KS in early 2021 after a difficult period during the corona virus pandemic, when Prime Minister Mario Nenadić resigned and the government was resigned. We as the opposition took responsibility, gathered the majority and appointed a new Government in the KS. This also now does nothing to prevent the opposition from gathering the majority around itself and for it to form a new government,” says Okerić.
From the position of the President of the Security Commission, we remember your refusal to hand over the Report on the case of Dženan Memic to the Ministry of Interior of the CS, and on the order of the Prosecutor’s Office of the CS. A report prepared by an ad hoc body of the Commission, in which certain omissions in the Memic case were identified. You refused to give the police a report without an order from the Cantonal Court in Sarajevo. That was on January 30, 2017. Nine years later, how do you assess that situation? Would you do the same and why are there still no concrete results in this case?
“I would act in the same way, especially since I am now convinced that in the last 9-10 years we have managed to improve the situation in society in some way, when it comes to the work of the police-judicial system. In 2016/17, when we were faced with that one great temptation of how and in what way to confront all those institutions, which did not cooperate with each other. The Cantonal Prosecutor’s Office did not cooperate with the Cantonal Court, did not cooperate with the Police Administration, and we could not have We had, in a way, amnestied certain police officers. Later, the court verdicts proved that the State Prosecutor’s Office did not deliver any concrete results individuals and as a system in increasing government rights and perhaps a glimmer of hope, and sometimes even more contributed to the responsibility of those who participated in those processes. One fact that should be emphasized is that the Security Commission together with the Independent Committee of the Sarajevo Canton Assembly, which participated in these proceedings, have not lost a single legal battle. Which means that we worked in accordance with the law, in accordance with the procedures and that everything that was done was done to prove the truth. And then we have the verdict of the first commissioner, who was found guilty of concealing documentation in the case of Dženan Memic. then his dismissal, then the dismissal of another commissioner, and all these dismissals were fully legally obtained, concluded the chairman of the CS Assembly.
